1760 – Grist mill owned by Cornelius Osborn operates on the Minisceongo Creek waterfall.1830 – John Glass purchases 45 acres along Railroad Avenue and builds first textile mill making calico print.1831 – Mr. Glass and 13 others killed in shipboard explosion.1838 – Plant is purchased by the Garner brothers and expanded, now employing more than 800 people.1853 – Textile mill is making 11 million yards of cloth per year. Workers homes & surrounding village named Garnerville1860 – Civil War. Rockland Print Works manufactures uniforms for the Union Army of the North.1915 – Textile mill now producing 1.6 million yards of cloth per week. Rockland Print Works literally owns the village, from the streetlights to the private police force.1929 – The Great Depression begins. The textile mill closes. Buildings abandoned, machinery sold and moved.1934 – William Larkin and 39 local businessmen purchase the complex with the help of a $150,000 loan from FDR’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation.1940 – World War II. Uniforms made for American soldiers.1950 – United Wire Goods Company is the first to start hiring Puerto Rican and Dominican workers.1980 – Textile industry gone. Light industry moves in.2001 – First Garnerville Arts Festival attracts 1000 visitors.2003 – Arts Center is founded.2007 – CREEKSIDE opens.2008 – Arts Center becomes 501(c)(3) not-for-profit arts organization.2009 – ‘Encounters with the Arts’ educational programs begin.2010 – 10th Annual Arts Festival draws 5000 visitors.2011 – Hurricane Irene destroys Garner’s Main Gallery, Arts Center is temporarily closed.2012 – GARNER Arts Center reopens; work begins on Building #35 restoration project; the Preservation League of New York State names Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center as one of its Seven to Save historic sites and grants the first Technical Assistance Grant for the restoration of Building #35.2013 – New York State Historic Preservation Office lists Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center on the State Historic Register of Historic Places as the “Rockland Print Works Historic District”. Click to view the full National Register Nomination(History section begins on Page 11).2015 - GARNER Arts Center welcomes 2,000 community members back for its first Arts Festival since Hurricane Irene. Launches first year of exhibitions and performances since 2010.